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• November 8, 2010 reneejudith added Falowiec
  

  Gdansk, Poland

  Falowiec

  Communist-era residential block is the longest residential building in Europe

  Built throughout the Polish city of Gdansk in the late 1960s and 70s, falowiec means "wavy block" and is a type of architecture that has a wavy shape in both its body - the main structure - and... »

  Architectural Oddities | Edited by reneejudith and Nicholas Jackson

• November 8, 2010 reneejudith added Skarpa Ski Jump
  

  Warsaw, Poland

  Skarpa Ski Jump

  Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city

  The 'skarpa,' Polish for 'escarpment,' was originally used for training. However, since it was closed down in the 1980s it has only been utilized by various contemporary Polish performance artists... »

  Architectural Oddities | Edited by reneejudith, Annetta and others

• November 7, 2010 reneejudith added Cemetery of Lost Cemeteries
  

  Gdansk, Poland

  Cemetery of Lost Cemeteries

  Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II

  Before World War II broke out, the Polish city of Gdansk was home to 27 different graveyards and a necropolis. All of those were destroyed during the war or bulldozed after it. Decades later, on... »

  Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by reneejudith, Nicholas Jackson and others